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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Chat - private communication

In an early release of PAW it was possible to use the chat function to communicate to a specific user by using @-sign. This was removed. Customers are asking for this functionality and it would be great if this functionality returns.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Localizing the file used in the ODBC/DB2 Connectors for the "read select statement from file"

This in regard to PMR/CASE #: TS000099558 ISSUE:DataStage ODBC/DB2 connector with ‘Read select statement from file': file note accessible from Hadoop hi-We have a DataStage job with odbc connector and the select statement is set to 'Read select ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

FR581: Enable pushdown and transitive closure for LIKE with parameter markers to table expressions

As part of SAP Core Data Services (CDS), SAP supports 'type as you search' capability when entering values in panels. As part of this processing, they issue the following query on a view which includes a UNION clause. The access path with DB2 is n...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

CDC Accounts audit

CDC User accounts accessed been collected in Audit trail logs at the moment. But it does not mention which machine is accessing the accounts. This is not helpful to find the users who are unauthorised. We need machine details also to be recorded i...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Integrate with the Enterprise LDAP or Domain authentication

Integrate with the Enterprise LDAP or Domain authentication Currently tool manages internal security model not aligned with the enterprise LDAP/ADS integration for the Target, CDA, MC
over 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Functionality already exists

Support retrieval of data from IMS Secondary Index using DVM IMS Direct

We have in-house applications that stores data in an IMS Secondary Index database. The application would like to use DVM to retrieve data from their IMS INDEX DB. Currently in DVM V1.1.0 using IMS-Direct on an IMS Index is not supported. Applicati...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Non-Dismissible Banner on top of every CA Screen

A common customer requirement is to display a non-dismissible bar or banner at the top of every screen in the Cognos UI (not just report pages) which contains various corporate information, classification information, or other text and/or images (...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Report Template for use with Powerplay Cubes in Report Studio

With the deprecation of Powerplay Studio in Cognos Analytics on Cloud, we need a template that can be used to quickly start a user creating a report. Powerplay Studio would automatically create a pivot table with the first two dimensions in the mo...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Introduction of 2 x 2 chart with necessary quadrant labels and legend organization, in order to recreate Market Diagnostic Ch

Need CA Dashboarding to support 2x2 charts with required quadrant labels and legend
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow dropping of distributions on specific columns; today it is only possible to drop all distributions on a table

We have a large system of many Tbs and as a legacy of Art Kagel's "dostats" we have distributions on all columns of all tables. These distributions are not needed and we have to spend considerable database resources keeping these up to date. We'd ...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration